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Roll of Honour Scottish Junior Cup Winn ers

1995/ 96, 2002/ 03, 2004/ 05 Runn ers-Up 1992/ 93, 1996/ 97, 2003/ 04

East Super League Champions 2002/ 03, 2005/ 06

Runn ers-Up 2003/ 04, 2004/ 05

East Premier League Champions 2009/ 10, 2014/ 15

Tayside League Division 1 / Premier League Champions 1991/ 92, 1992/ 93, 1994/ 95, 1995/ 96, 1998/ 99

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Tayside League Division 2 Champions 1990/ 91

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Redwood Leisure Cup Winn ers 1998/ 99, 1999/ 00, 2008/ 09

Cream of the Barley Trophy Winners 1994/ 95

Currie Cup Winn ers 1990/ 91, 1991/ 92, 1992/ 93, 1993/ 94 1998/ 99, 2000/ 01, 2001/ 02, 2004/ 05, 2005/ 06, 2007 / 08

Perthshire Advertiser Cup Winners 1990/ 91, 1995/ 96

Intersport Shield Winn ers 1990/ 91, 1993/ 94

DJ Laing Trophy Winners 1997 / 98

Challenge Cup Winn ers 1999/ 00, 2000/ 01, 2002/ 03, 2006/ 07

DJ Laing League Cup Winn ers 2001/ 02

Craig Stephen Trophy (Association 's Top Scoring Club) Winners 1990/ 91, 1991/ 92, 1993/ 94, 1995/ 96, 1997 / 98,

1998/ 99, 2000/ 01, 2001/ 02

Albert Herschell Trophy (Premier Champions v Division 1 Champions Charity Tophy) Winnt ers 1990/ 91, 1991/ 92, 1992/ 93, 1993/ 94, 1994/ 95, 1995/ 96, 1998/ 99, 1999/ 00, 2000/ 01, 2001/ 02

David Scott Cup Winn ers 1995/ 96

Tameside Association for the Blind International Challenge Cup Winners 1996

Competition Entered this Season East Prerruer League Scottish Juruor Cup North / Taysid e Cup East of Scotland Cup

Tayport F.C. Triple Scottish Cup Winners

Fraser Mann Grant Buist

Grant Paterson Mark Spaldin g Keith Nicolson

Sean Wilkie Grant Millar (Allan Ramsa y)

Steven Stewart Stephen Ross (Barry Gray)

Dav e Reilly Gary Mah er CTim Henry)

Scorer - Ross (2) Alt. 4,652

1 June 2003 1-0 (aet) v Linlithgow Rose

al Firhill , Glasgow Frazer Fitzpatrick

Ross Gunnion Grant Paterson Roberto Morris

John Ward Scott Peters Jon Mitchell

Steven Stewart (Doug Scott) Brian Craik (Allan Ramsay)

Barry McNaugh ton Gareth Dailly (David Evans)

Scorer - Craik Att. 4,613

at Tannad.ice Park Frazer Fitzpatrick

Roberto Morris Grant Paterson (Lloyd Young)

JohnWard Derek Wemyss

Scott Peters Barry McNaughton

Steven Stewart Robbie Henderson (Allan Ramsay)

Gary Middleton (Ralph Hunter) Brian Livie

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Tayport F.C Player of the Year Awards 2016/17 . . .. .. . . . . . . .. .. .: . . , ,

Players' Player Of The Year (Presented 1991 in memory of the late Rev. G.S. Ayre)- Daniel Sauchez

Travel Club Player Of The Year (Presented in memory of the late Davie Ayre) - Daniel Sanchez

Young Player Of The Year (Presented by Bella Carmichael in memory of Dite Carmichael) - Kiera11 Conway

Top Scorer Award (Presented by Andrew Robertson) - Dale Reid

Morris Couper Award for Goal Of The Season (Presented 1993 by family of Morris Couper} - Sh1art Walto11

Today's Teams

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Tayport

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Gavin SORLEY

Kieran CONWA Y

Craig STURROCK

Daniel SANCHEZ

Gregor ANDER SON

Connor GRAY

Jamie MACKIE

Jamie GILL

Dale REID

Gary SUTHERLAND

Conor IRELAND

KamilKADELA

Charlie KING

Marc OGG

Sergio ALVAREZ

Alan TULLETH

Grant PATERSON

Martin STRACHAN

Player/Manager - Charlie King

Assistant Manager - Daryn Smith

Coach - Grant Paterson

Saturday 11th November

2017

Referee: ChrisMcNAB

Assistant 1: Mike CRICHTON

Assistant 2: Dun e McLULLICH

Cover pie shows

Mark Corcoran who played for both Lin-

lithgow and Tay-port before having a lengthy Senior ea-

reer. A Tayport lad, Mark played 99

games for Tayport before a £3,000

transfer to Rose in 2001. Mark played

for Rose in their Scottish semi win over 'Port in 2002

but was on the los-ing side when Tay-por t defeated Lith-

gae in the 2003 final.

Manager

Coaches

Coach - Darren Tennant

Physio - Andy Bell

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Linlithgow Rose from

g/k Darren HILL

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g/k Richie BARNARD

Gary THOM

Kyle TURNBULL

Jamie McKENZIE

Colin LEIPER

Martin SHIELDS

Owen RONALD

Ruari McLENNAN

Aiden MALONE

Tommy COYNE

Roddy McLENNAN

Blair BATCHELOR

Cammy McCLAIR

Iain GRAY

Colin STRICKLAND

Robert SLOAN

Stewart DEVINE

- Mar k Bradley

- Paul Ronald

- Alan Lochtie

Today's Game DJ Laing East of Scotland Cup R 1

Tayport v Linlithgow Rose II There are a number of East of Scotland Cup ties being played this afternoon, all of which, apart from this tie, are 2nd round ties. This is the competition's outstanding 1 st round tie .

Linlithgow Rose arrive at Tayport today hoping to extend a run of 8 consecutive victories. Yet, after an indifferent start to the season, a surprise 1-2 defeat at Banks o' Dee in the 1 st qualifying round of the William Hill Scottish [Senior] seemed to herald another disappointing season.

Not so. Mark Bradley , back in the managerial seat for a second time, Rose's fifth manager in three years, has put his club's start to the season behind him to steer the club to the top of the Super League on the back of the winning run.

Most recent success was at Hill of Beath last Saturday . By all accounts the 3-0 winning margin flattered the winners, as they didn't really get on top until Haws shot themselves in

the foot getting two players ordered off whilst trailing by 1-0 and playing virtually the entire second half with only nine men .

Linlithgow's three main strikers were on the mark at Keir's Park, one of whom, Tommy Coyne, found the net for a fifth successive league game. Indeed, Coyne, a prolific scorer for many seasons and joint leading scorer so far this season, is poised to enter the club's history books sometime soon as the club 's all-time scorer top scorer.

Tayport , whose record v Linlithgow was probably second to none a decade and more ago, no longer have quite the profile they enjoyed in that era.

Although there remain flaws in their performances this season, they have had their moments , the opening 25 minutes v Dalkeith last week, for example.

Linlithgow are a different kettle offish though and Tayport will have to be at their best to make round 2 and a home tie with Hill of

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Beath Hawthorn.

Unfortunately Kieran Conway (below) remains suspended (unwarranted,

many would argue) and Martin Strachan who had an impressive first start last Saturday, misses out through being cup-tied with Scone earlier in the season. Jamie Gill could feature but it looks like the game could come a week too soon for Jamie Mackie . Marc Ogg is still out with a broken arm.

The tie will be settled on penalties if all square after 90minutes

«P?' LAWG .> GROUP

What's the Manager saving? -the view lrom the dugout

Welcome again to the Canniepairt for our home game v high flying Lin­lithgow Rose, a little break from the league this week and a challenge to which we look forward.

Looking back at last week, it was quite an emotional day saying our fare­wells to John but my goodness, the players put every bit of that emotion into that 1st half display which was excellent. First and foremost , it was really pleasing getting a clean sheet but to see us win the game very comfortably with our strikers scoring the goals was fantastic.

We look forward to seeing you all again. Please get behind the team .

Kelty take step back to leap forward

Kelty Hearts, last season's East Region champions, made the bold decision ear­

lier this year to abandon Junior Football and join the Scottish Professional Foot­

ball League Pyramid. To do so, they had to start at the base of the pyramid and .____ ____ that meant joining the East of Scotland Football League. At its Super League

level, the Junior game is a cut above the EoS FL, and Kelty' s results to date have certainly con­firmed that - P9 W9 F 70 A 5 Pts 27.

The EoSFL comprises 13 clubs, a drop of 4 clubs in as many seasons. The member clubs hail

from Burntisland down to Berwick, Coldstream and Gretna on the English border . To climb the

pyramid Kelty will have to win their league and then play off against the South of Scotland

League Champions to get into the Lowland League . Once in the Lowland League their aim is to

finish at the top , win a play off against the Highland League Champions and thus gain entry to

the SPFL Division 2. In theory therefore , in 2024 we could be glued to our TV screens watching

Kelty Hearts in the Champions League.

Such is the lack of media coverage of the East of Scotland Football League , certainly in these

parts , you' d be forgiven for wondering where Kelty Hearts had gone. Lack of media coverage

and participating in hugel y one-sided games for a season will soon be forgotten however when

Kelty get in amongst the big boys.

Linlithgow at the Canniepairt

14.12.96 Tayport 3-0 Linlithgow S. Cup 24.03.07 Tayport 3-0 Linlith gow S. Lge

14.03.98 Tayport 2-0 Linlithgow S. Cup 01.09.07 Tayport 2-0 Linlithgow S. Lge

30.11.02 Tayport 2-1 Linlithgow S. Lge 24.09.08 Tayport 0-1 Linlithgow S. Lge

30.08.03 Taypor t 0-2 Linlithgow S. Lge 21.08.10 Taypor t 0-1 Linlithgow S. Lge

04.06.05 Tayport 3-1 Linlith gow S. Lge 05.04.14 Tayport 1-1 Linlithgow S. Lge

01.10.05 Tayport 0-0 Linlithgow S. Lge 16.04.16 Tayport 1-5 Linlithgow S. Lge

II Linlithgow' s season so far II 5/8/17 League A PENICUIK Ro McLennan, Ru McLennan

9/8/17 League H CAMELON w 3-1 Batchelor 2, Strickland

12/8/17 League H NEWTO NGRANGE w 1-0 Ronald

16/8/17 League A BROXBURN -

19/8/17 League A LOCHEE UNITED w 5-1 Malone, Thom, Batchelor, Ronald. OG

26/8/17 League H FORFARWE w 1-0 Ronald

2/9/17 WHSC A BANKSO ' DEE 0G

9/9/17 League A BO'NESS UNITED w 2-1 Ro. McLennan, Ronald

16/9/17 League H BROUGHfY ATI-I w 4-1 Coyne 2, Ro McLenn an, Ronald

30/9/17 League A KENNOWAY w 2-1 Coyne, Ronald

7 /10/17 F&Lrl A CROSSGATES w 1-0 Coyne

14/10/17 League A JEANFIELD w 5-2 Coyne 3, Ru McLennan, Ronald

21/10/17 League H SAUCHIE w 1-0 Coyne

28/10/17 SJC A LUGAR BOS. TI-IIS w 3-1 Malone, Ronald, Ro McLennan

4/11/17 League H HILL OF BEATI-I w 3-0 Coyne, Ronald, Malone

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5 Tayport 13 7

6 St An drews United 13 6

7 Glemothes 14 5

8 Tranent 13 4

9 Bathgate Thistle 11 3

10 Dalkeith Thistle 14 4

11 Downfield 14 4

12 Dunbar United 11 3

13 Thornton Hibs 10 3

Last week 's Results

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Haddington lvO Tranent

Kirrie Thistle Ovl Bathgate Thistle

Musselburgh Ath 3 v2 Downfie ld

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Today's Premier League Fixtures

Bathgate Thistle

Glenro thes

St Andrews Utd

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STATS 2017/18 STATS 2017/18 DATE OPP COM WLD RES 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 Sl S2 S3 att SAUG Musselburgh PL I L 2-6 Sorley Walton Sturrock Sanchez G.Anderson Alvar ez Mackie Paterson Reid! Sutherland C. Ireland I Christie (6) 149

9AUG GLENRO'I'IIES PL2 w 6-2 Sorley Walton Sturrock King Conway Ogg! Mackie I Paterson Reid2 Sutherland 2 Ireland Christi e ( I 0) Robertson (8) 101 12AUG DUNBARUTD PL3 w 3-2 Sorley Walton Rob ertson Conway G.Anderson Ogg Mackie I Paterson Reid2 Sutherland King Alvarez ( ! I) D.Smith ( 2) Christie ( I 0) 88

16AUG KirrieThistle PL4 L 0-2 Sorley Conway Sturrock King G.Anderson Ogg Mackie Paterson Reid Sutherland Christie Tulleth (7) Smith (II) BI

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2SEP LINLITHGOW EoSrl Postponed .. Linlithgow had WmHill Scottish Cup tie V Banks O'Dee

9SEP Blackbum PL7 L 1-2 Sorley Gray Sturr ock Sanchez GAnd erson Ogg Gill Paterson Reid! Tulleth Ireland Sutherland (9) Alvarez (10) 101 16SEP HADDINGTON PLB w 3-2 Sorl ey Gray Sturrock Sanchez 1 King Ogg : Alvarez I Pat erson Reid Sutherland l Tulleth Macki e (5) Gill(8) Ireland 84 23SEP CUMBERNAULD SCl L 1-2 Sorley Gray Sturrock Sanchez Mackie Ogg Alvarez Gill Reid I Sutherland Ireland Conway (4) Tulleth ( I 0) Kadela (3) 118 30S EP Amiston PL9 w 2-1 Sorlev Grav Sturrock Sanchez Mackie Ogg 7OCT Downfield PL 10 w 2-1 Sorley Gray Sturrock Sanchez Mackie Alvar ez

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28OCT Glenrothes PL 13 D 2-2 Sorl ey Conway Gray Sanche z Anderson Alvarez Ogg Paterson Reid lreland2 Mackie Strachan (I I) Sutherland(9) Tulleth (7) 96 4NOV DALKEITH PL 14 w 4-0 Sorlev Sturrock Gray Sanchez Anderson Tulleth Strachan Paterson Reid Ireland Sutherland 2 Kadela (9) Alvarez (10) King (4) 73

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-Armadale 0-1 Forfar WE Fauldhouse 4-0 Easthouses Luncarty 4-0 Stoneyburn * = won on penalty kicks -

Forfar Albion 1-7 Crossgate Arniston 0-1 Dunbar Utd -Penicuik 4-1 Bathgate -Blairgowrie 1-2 Harthill 2 Haddington 6-0 Kinnoull Pumpherston 4-1 Edinburgh Holders - Tranent -Broxbum 3-3 Oakley Utd* Hill of Beath 2-1 Arbroath Vies -Rosyth 1-3 Coupar Angus Outstanding tie - -Broughty 1-4 East Craigie Jeanfield 0-4 Kennoway St Andrews 1-5 Musselburgh Tayport v Linlithgow Rose -Camelon 4-2 Glenrothes Kirrie Thstle 2-0 Harp -

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Linlithgow look very good bets for the last 32 when they were drawn away to Oakley United in this week's 3rd round draw. Also drawn away- to Newtongrange - were our first round conquerors Cumbernauld United.

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Linlithgow have been given the ok to continue to kick-off Saturday matches at 2.30pm throughout the winter months by playing under the Prestonfield floodlights.

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Former Linlithgow defender and more recently Tayport's player/manager John Ovenstone was put in charge of Cowdenbeath FC on an interim basis following the dismissal last week of manager Billy Brown. Ovy and Jim Moffat, the former Tayport

goalie coach, at least saw their side score a rare goal but Montrose took the points at Central Park in a 3-1 win leaving the Blue Brazil still rooted at the foot of the table

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Three club stalwarts over tbe years in celebratory mood at a

club function in 1979. From left , Kenny Smitb, Chas Anderson,

Drew Herd and A lan Hart

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Brian Craik, scorer of tbe only goal of

tbe game when Tayport beat Linlitbgow

1-0 in tbe 2003 Scottish Cup Final

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Juniors these days

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iors match 80

years ago between

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"""-"-' • ., ,, Brechin Renton in

1937.

DUNMORE REPORTS ....

A storming start to last weekend's East Premier League fixture against visiting Dalkeith saw Tayport claim a maximum three points, as the team got back to winning ways after two successive draws.

Strikers Dale Reid and Gary Sutherland netted two goals apiece in the opening twenty -five minutes and that was enough to secure the win. Conor Ireland set up the opening goal, crossing from the right for Sutherland, who took a heavy touch , but showed strength to get back onto the ball and net from ten yards out.

That counter came on ten minutes and the next came just five minutes later. Ireland was fouled inside the box and Dale Reid duly netted the spot kick .

'Port continued to push forward and made it 3-0 on 21 minutes. Tenacity from Dani Sanchez was key in the build-up and Reid raced away to tuck home his second , in fine style.

Firing on all 'cylinders , it was not long until the Canniepairt men added a fourth. Again, the hosts attacked down the right , through Reid and his low cross was slotted past the 'keeper by Sutherland.

The remainder of the game was more even. Alan Tulleth had a couple of speculative efforts for 'Port, while Dalkeith came close on occasion , notably through Paul Tansey, but there would be no further goals.

It was a fine win for Charlie King's men and the gaffer will have been pleased to see his side record a first clean sheet of the season .

The victory will have provided a boost ahead of today 's cup tie against Linlithgow Rose , but the Super League outfit are sure to provide a much tougher test. Let's hope Tayport can rise to the challenge .

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CHAIRMAN'S CHAT

This afternoon we welcome Linlithgow Rose to the

Canniepairt for this East of Scotland Cup 1 st round

tie .

I must say I am very much looking forward to to­

day's encounter. Of course our opponents will start

as strong favourites and rightly so as they sit top of

the Super League . As a manager I always saw

games such as this as a great challenge and opportunity to perform to the

best of your ability .

In my notes before last week ' s game against Dalkeith Thistle I said that

the best tonic the team could give everyone after the loss of John was to

have a shutout and a victory and that's what happened, with a 4-0 win.

One of the oldest sayings in the book is 'if you don't lose goals don't lose

games'. I know it ' s the most obvious of facts but I always took more satis­

faction from a 1-0 victory than winning by a larger margin but losing

goals. It demonstrates strength , discipline and a strong mentality.

Today our players face a difficult task and are not expected to prevail. I

believe they can. They have nothing to lose and all to gain . Can I tempt

fate and ask for another shutout and a victory . It would provide an even

bigger tonic than last week and a great achievement.

Regards, Vevvid,

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